The Record

We'll hear about the power and potential of virtual reality, from one of its pioneers. Jaron Lanier is in the studio. He's the author of the new book "Dawn of the New Everything."

Bill Radke talks to Kirsten Harris-Talley, former Seattle City Councilmember about what she hopes to see in the next police chief of the Seattle Police Department.

On the night of Dr. Roberto Montenegro’s dissertation defense celebration, he was at a fancy restaurant and feeling on top of the world — until a woman bypassed the valet stand and handed him her keys.

Bill Radke talks to the New York Times' Gender Editor Jessica Bennett about the fact that so many of the high-profile men who have been accused of workplace sexual harassment and assault also decided what stories we all had access to, from movies and TV to news coverage. Bennett has been writing about this in her newsletter for the NYT, The #MeTooMoment .

We'll talk Christmas carols – the good, the bad, the unlistenable – with actors Jane Lynch ("Glee") and Kate Flannery ("The Office"). They're in Seattle for "A Swingin' Little Christmas" at the Triple Door Theater.

You will laugh, you will cry, but you will mostly laugh along with actors Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery as they talk with Bill Radke about the Christmas songs we love and love to hate.

Bill Radke sits down with Kevin Young, archivist at the New York Public Library and author of the new book "Bunk." The book is a catalog of hoaxes, plagiarism and flimflam of all stripes. Young argues that there’s something uniquely American about hoaxes.

Host Bill Radke sat down with beloved author and philanthropist Isabel Allende. Her new book is "In the Midst of Winter." It touches on themes of love, loss and immigration in the winter of one's life. She and Bill talked about those topics and more, including her grandfather's lessons on work ethic that she never forgot.

Bill Radke talks to Judy Giesberg, history professor at Villanova University and editor of Journal of the Civil War Era , and David Blight , history professor at Yale University, about the Civil War and whether today's political climate, while divided, is anywhere near the brink of another war.

Look up at the sky in a wooded area. It’s a bird. It’s a plane! It’s … a cat, stuck in a tree. Bill Radke sat down with Shaun Sears, the owner of Canopy Cat Rescue , to hear about his experiences. He and his brother-in-law Tom have been rescuing cats from aloft since 2009 – sometimes from 175 feet in the air. We learned some surprising things from the interview and have compiled them into this helpful listicle.